Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar evidence of unity emerged from the numerous ( about 600 ) Latin American bishops . |
| 2 | Marilyn Thompson tossed her head and a lock of hair drifted from the elaborate structure . |
| 3 | In Ulster a full panoply of institutions emerged from the dual pressure of the church 's concern for its people , and the Northern state 's discrimination against catholics . |
| 4 | It was in the shape of a V with the entrance at the point of the V. We covered both trenches with large pieces of wood scrounged from the back garden of Brigade H.Q On top of the wood were placed thick pieces of turf which acted as very good camouflage . |
| 5 | A rare voice of dissent came from the leading liberal legislator , Mr Martin Lee , who argued that the deportations would give Hong Kong a bad name . |
| 6 | Over the years the body of Electors grew from the original Elector Counts to include representatives of the cults of Sigmar and Ulric . |
| 7 | He could still recall the sodden weight of the man , hanging from the iron rings upon the outer wall — the struggle to haul him up — the rush of water spewed from the gaping mouth as they turned him over … . |
| 8 | ‘ It was banked and a pillar of smoke rose from the right wing . |
| 9 | Úvoz Street is of medieval origin and was of importance when the kings of Bohemia processed from the Royal Court in the Old Town ( see p. 131 ) to St Vitus ' Cathedral for their coronation . |
| 10 | People laughed about their pink towels turning blue , the result of copper leached from the hot water pipes by the acidic water . |
| 11 | It has always been assumed that the bony orbitosphenoid of amphisbaenians evolved from the flimsy cartilage of lizards by the straightforward ossification of cartilage — the process whereby nearly all bones are formed during the embryonic development of any animal . |
| 12 | The young people had gone upstairs , to bed , or not to bed : strains of music drifted from the upper regions plaintively . |
| 13 | Other deities recorded are the Mother Goddesses , the Fates , Mercury and Hercules , while a small lead statuette of Diana came from the supposed temple site in Keays Lane . |
| 14 | Aunt Sophie embraced her warmly and the soft scent of lavender rose from the pleated bodice of her gown . |
| 15 | The first 16 feet of ramp arrived from the then defunct skatepark in Wokingham in November 1979 . |
| 16 | Indeed , in last week 's issue , Plank and Langmuir showed that there are global correlations between the flux of sediment into subduction zones and the composition of magmas erupted from the associated volcanoes . |
| 17 | Gena Corea , a co-founder of the National Coalition Against Surrogacy quoted from the American Fertility Society 's ethical report , ’ The primary medical indication for use of a surrogate mother is the inability of a woman to provide with the genetic ( the egg ) or the gestation component ( the uterus ) for childbearing ’ . |
| 18 | The charges against Enrile arose from the abortive coup attempt of December 1989 , the most serious military insurrection Aquino to date . |
| 19 | The first signs of a popular revolt against Saddam came from the southern city of Basra on March 1 . |
| 20 | Most of her life was spent pushing barges loaded with silt dredged from the narrow canals around Birmingham . |
| 21 | Most of the comments on links with parents came from the primary sector |
| 22 | Some of these are essentially historical : the interest developed in part as a reaction or antidote to Chomsky 's treatment of language as an abstract device , or mental ability , dissociable from the uses , users and functions of language ( an abstraction that Chomsky in part drew from the post-Bloomfieldian structuralism that predominated immediately before transformational generative grammar ) . |
| 23 | In the 1918 General Election Liberal representation in parliament fell from the 272 of December 1910 to 151 . |
| 24 | Japan 's interest in Manchuria dated from the Meiji period . |
| 25 | The present wool mill was built in 1883 from stone quarried from the nearby River Sorn . |
| 26 | The sample from Wales came from the same locality as the short-eared owl and tawny owl pellet samples , and the kestrel was hunting over much the same area as these species . |
| 27 | Two of the most powerful directors in Hollywood graduated from the Happy Days academy . |
| 28 | Apparently following a plea by the newly returned Uniate Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky [ see p. 38104-05 ] , Khmara had finally been released pending trial on April 5 after almost five months in investigative custody ( the delay in bringing him to trial resulted from the original indictment having been withdrawn by the prosecution in early March for further investigations ) . |
| 29 | That common-sense approach to Brent came from the hon. Member for Brent , East ( Mr. Livingstone ) who , for those who may not remember , was the former leader of the Greater London council . |
| 30 | The failure of a small group of teachers ( who even if they were not professionally inept were certainly politically naïve ) was used to provide ammunition for an attack on schools whose approach to learning diverged from the traditional . |